>normalizes fomo virtual cosmetics with arbitrary rarity with tf2>normalize season/battle passes with dota and cs>tries to sell paid mods>abandons core franchise development to sell overpriced cosmetics and promote gambling mechanics to teenagers>makes a barebones VR half life without gordon, retcons lore for an epic reddit crowbar moment>still seen as the ‘good guys’ for offering a 20% discount on AAA slop nobody wanted anyways down from 90% discounts pre-refund flash sale era, thanks australia.>actually invented season passes with TF2>introduced millions of literal children to gambling through CS:GO>uses their fans for free labor by taking fanmade skins off the steam workshop and adding them to their cases and selling the rights for the designs like hyperbeast to gaming companies without asking, while the creator gets scraps like $0.0002 per sold key>is a monopoly (to faggots saying that it's an oligopoly, it isn't if they own like 80% of the market and other companies with large capital can't compete while trying really fucking hard like Epic for example)>completely killed reselling PC games>popularized the idea of single use activation codes and tying PC games to a single account which definitely wasn't common practice back in the day>has been constantly shitting on their loyal fans and hasn't made a proper single player PC game in 13 years>the only games that they're interested in are cashcows like CS or Dota and they've abandoned Portal, L4D and Half Life as they can't monetize them properly>actively did pr campaigns where they claim they have a "free" work environment while in reality it's a private corporation where primary motivation is making profits meaning sucking up to shareholders (gaben and buddies)>invented woke before woke was a thingAnd everyone still calls them the good guys. >inb4 linux even though gayben and his buddy where one of the original microcock employees>inb4 akamai server costs (1% of their profits probably)
You forgot to mention>enshittificated indie games by removing greenlight, and completely destroying organic visibility, meaning indie devs have to pivot to social media retards as their core audience instead of actual gamers
>>730824862I love Steam, but everything you posted here is sadly correct. The thing is, what other options do we have? Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo??? They're the same shit.
>>730825473There won't be another competitors as hosting these servers are too costly for any startup actually without a gov backed up like valve or other big corporate
>briefly look through this wall of text>see "monopoly" >chuckleAnyone else nooticing that the anti-valve jeets became even more unchinged when it became open that all that shilling and "free games" gave Epic Gayness a whole lot of users but little actual profit?
hello mr. sweeney
>>730824862>piracy is a service problem Ironic, considering the faggy shit he pushed on pc gaming is exactly what made me stop paying for software entirely and only pirate any new releases. If i cant just buy a cd that i can install and play on my own machine without needing to ever go online during the process, why the fuck would i ever pay for 1-time use installation discs/keys(like Valve did) or pay for digital access when piracy gives me the same exact function? Definitely not paying extra for the faggy little extras like achievements and cards. Fuck this fat fuck eternally for ruining pc gaming by offering only a slightly less dickhole alternative to what EA and Microsoft were doing, rather than actually providing the complete opposite and respecting the honest buyer, instead of chimping out about lost sales to those who simply will never day you a cent no matter how "easy" you make it. Hope he croaks on the toilet.
Amazing how criticizing Nintendo or Sony gets you banned but these guys can spam hourly threads on Steam and it's total crickets from the jannies
>>730824862based gaben. stay mad turdie poorfag.
>>730824862Or you could just....not buy any of that, play the games for free, and miss out on nothing but cosmetics.
>>730826430to be fair, these threads are pruned constantly because most mods surprise surprise have biases regarding corporations like valve and nintend𐐬remember when asked why they allow smash threads to shit up the board they just said "Smash is an important cultural thing" or something? Mods are extremely biased like that.
